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March, 2013
The New National Theatre, Tokyo's NNTT Drama Studio opened in 2005. As of 2012, the Drama Studio has enrolled seven classes of students, and graduates of the program have gone on to appear in a wide variety of productions.
Artistic Director Miyata Keiko, who also serves as a Drama Studio instructor, has created a special series in which veteran actors will team with program graduates to mount intellectually provocative works. The first installment in the series will be Fukuda Yoshiyuki's Nagai Bohyouno Retsu.
Nagai Bohyouno Retsu is based loosely on historical events: namely, the Japanese government's move to ban the sale of writings by Kawai Eijiro, an economics professor at the University of Tokyo, in what became known as the Kawai Eijiro Incident. The play was premiered in 1955 by Sodai Gekiken (the Waseda University Theatre Circle). A revised version was then staged by the Budou no Kai theatre company in 1958. We can see the spirit of the playwright in the ANPO opposition movement, which was fueled by anger over the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty of 1960.
A number of theatre companies have staged Fukuda's early plays in recent years, including Sanada Fuunroku and Hakamadare wa Doko Da, as well as Nagai Bohyouno Retsu. These multiprotagist dramas are characterized by a cold objectivity, yet their stories are told with great passion; and all still have something profound to say to us living in today's world.
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